Behringer Xenyx 1204USB Mixer with USB

For the price this thing works great. Its not too large for my desk, but big enough that you do not feel limited or crowded controlling your sound needs. I use this for Twitch streaming, playing games, or just general control of multiple sound sources at my desk. I literally pipe everything into this mixer at my desk.I am able to run my discord/teamspeak on a separate system and pipe my mic out the Aux channel to it. I only use the USB out for use into OBS for recording or streaming on the game computer. I actually output the game computer sound back into the mixer in one of the stereo channels so I can mix everything before sending it out to OBS. That way I do not have to adjust game/mic/discord/music/ via OBS sliders. I can stay in the game and adjust on the fly without needed to alt/tab over to OBS or go into game audio settings.Everything is laid out logically on the board and is all pretty self explanatory if you have sound equipment experience, but also feel someone with no experience could get up and running with just a little reading of the manual.

This will be more of a PC tech/streaming tailored review, but overall this mixer is amazing for anyone who needs the channels!I personally got this for a 2 PC stream setup (livestreaming to Twitch or a live broadcasting platform). It connected the audio from my main gaming PC & tied it into my 2nd PC that did all the hardware encoding to Twitch. All my audio needed to be routed & managed via the mixer & easily adjusted on the fly. The mixer handled my main desktop audio source, XLR mic, Spotify, & Discord very well.After the RTX cards released, I'm streaming off 1 PC now & don't really need the mixer anymore, but I still use it to power my Audio Technica headphones & my Shure SM57 XLR mic. It's high quality & sounds great.I'm a novice when it comes to mixing audio, so for someone who can use this for real, it'll prob be perfect!

I originally wanted a product with four channels maximum, two ideally. Plenty of interfaces had 2 channels or less, but EQ, effects loops, mute, solo, and other features were lacking. If there was something like that out there, I did not see it.I opted for the 4-channel version of the product, and wondered why it did not work. Apparently, it has limitations, and the USB was not "two way". That is puzzling, because why have the feature if the USB was only one way? So I returned it, and bought the one being reviewed now.At first, I thought this board had the same issue. I spent hours trying to understand why I could monitor all sources, but applications on the PC would not pick up the analog signal. Drivers and trying to determine what the devices were was tricky. It may be easy for others, but it has been almost 20 years since using audio gear like this.I finally got the analog to work, but it happened randomly.As for the quality of the board, it is quiet for my particular application. I like the digital output, without having to deal with the limitation of the analog inputs and outputs in the computer. Yes, I could have opted for a high end sound card with better analog, but I am not looking to produce the next Soundcloud hit, so I do not want to invest in more gear than I need. I like the feel of the pots. The faders are a tad slick, but still very nice. Options for monitoring is really nice. It has room to grow if I want to someday add a reverb or other outboard gear. It's nice quality for the price.I want to reiterate I really did not want 12 channels. A four channel with the same feature set would be really great. Perhaps product development can see this and consider doing that. Unless, again, I missed a whole class of products.Is this necessary for the Twitch user? No. Is it nice to have? Yes. So recommendation is based on your needs. My needs were very simple.

Excellent

Bought it for a specific broadcast use and was excellent. This is the second one I purchased.

I got this for a 5 person podcast I was hoping to put together and so far it has been working well. The 4 main inputs work great with the relatively inexpensive microphones I got (Xm1800s) and that part was pretty easy to get done. Also on the easy side of things is the USB connection to my laptop I am using as my recording device.As for the other 4 channels I don't quite get how they work. Right now I don't have any instruments to input to it or other devices for that matter. I thought with the phantom power it comes with I could use my cheap little gaming mic's but for some reason I can't get them to show up at all. I have tested them on the laptop by themselves and it works as good as usual.Even being limited to my other 4 microphones it is working really quite well.

Bought this specifically for the purpose of plugging multiple sources into my computer for things like FL Studio, Discord voice chats, and Skype/zoom calls. USB has a horrible hiss. Hard to find the specific driver for this unit, all it gave me was a audacity link, and NO mixer specific sound drivers. Was going to replace my Focusrite scarlet with this but ended up just using it as a mixing board and plugging it into the Focusrite input to send it to the computer. And the Focusrite also automatically installed drivers just by plugging it in. If this wasn't such a good mixing board for the money I would have returned it. DO NOT BUY as a audio interface, but as a mixer, it works and is actually quite good. Such mixed feelings on this purchase.